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The Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (French: Centrale des syndicats démocratiques or CSD) is a national trade union centre in Quebec formed on 8 June 1972 in response to a split within the Confederation of National Trade Unions Confédération des syndicats nationaux CSN).It is the smallest of the four labour centres in Quebec with about 4% (62770 members) of the union membership in the province.The split was led by dissident members of the CSN executive Paul-Émile Dalpé Jacques Dion and Amédée Daigle referred to as the Three Ds who said they wanted a more democratic union body and one which would be politically neutral as distinct from the political militancy of the CSN.